{"id":14,"date":"2012-01-09T16:17:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:57:18","slug":"memoria-et-historia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/01\/09\/memoria-et-historia\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory, identity and history"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Our memory is the thread of our personal identity; our memory liberates us from what Melanchthon, Luther’s colleague, called perpetual childhood.\u00a0 Without our past we have no present or future.” Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations<\/em>, 2nd Ed, p. 2<\/p>\n

Lindberg compares the role that memory plays in the formation of one’s personal identity to history’s role in the formation of public identity.\u00a0 What\u00a0if you suddenly could not remember siginificant facts about your life?\u00a0 How would it change your identity?\u00a0 Would it change your actions or beliefs?<\/p>\n

Apply that notion to your family, friendships, community, city or nation.\u00a0 Without a partial understanding of\u00a0a common history then no common\u00a0identity exists\u00a0either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Our memory is the thread of our personal identity; our memory liberates us from what Melanchthon, Luther’s colleague, called perpetual childhood.\u00a0 Without our past we have no present or future.” Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations, 2nd Ed, p. 2 Lindberg … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-martin-luther-history","category-memory","category-philip-melanchthon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}